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Classrooms will become bedrooms for the Santa Clarita Valley’s homeless under a deal approved Tuesday by the county to buy up to four modular buildings for the community’s winter shelter. Patricia Farrell Aidem in the Daily News.

The county Board of Supervisors, acting as the Community Development Commission, unanimously approved the $20,000 purchase of surplus modulars from the Hart Union High School District to house the homeless.

“It’s a great step in the right direction,” said Tim Davis, executive director of the nonprofit Santa Clarita Community Development Corp., which has tried for more than a decade to open a permanent shelter.

The players may have changed in a revived effort to award California’s precious electoral votes by congressional districts. But the dots, Democrats claim, still connect to one person: Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani. Mercury News.

Exhibit One in the Democrats’ case for conspiracy is Anne Dunsmore, who is leading the ballot measure’s fundraising effort, which organizers hope to get on the June 2008 ballot.

Dunsmore is a veteran GOP fundraiser who brought in more than $200,000 for President Bush in 2000 and 2004. She also happens to have been Giuliani’s top fundraiser before quitting Sept. 26.

U.S. Sen. Arnold Schwarzenegger, rubbing elbows in the upper house with his uncle, Democrat Edward Kennedy? Sacramento Bee.Mercury News.
Don’t laugh. It could happen, according to a Field Poll released Monday.

The Republican governor, termed out of office in 2010, remains very popular with California voters and would give incumbent U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer a fight in what has been a solidly Democratic state, the poll found.

In a modern-day twist on a Wild West battle over land, a Los Angeles County plan for an 81-mile swath of the Santa Monica Mountains is set for a showdown with the Coastal Commission today. Beth Barrett in the Daily News.

The plan bans construction in the most-sensitive habitats – including riparian areas along streams and canopied oak areas – and limits development in other significant woodlands, savannas and watersheds.

After years of struggling to raise money, the Children’s Museum of Los Angeles has landed a $10 million donation that provides a key boost toward building the San Fernando Valley’s first major museum. Kerry Cavanaugh and Brent Hopkins in the Daily News.

The anonymous donation is the largest single contribution and means the museum board is closer to reaching a price tag that has soared to $53 million for construction and exhibits at the Hansen Dam Recreation Area facility.

“This definitely gets us on track,” said Cecilia Aguilera Glassman, the museum’s chief executive officer who was brought in this year to spur fundraising.